Health risk assessment of toxicants in Meric River Delta Wetland, Thrace Region, Turkey

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Tarih

2020

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Springer

Erişim Hakkı

info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess

Özet

In the current research, water quality of Meric River Delta was evaluated using some toxic element risk assessment indices. Samples were collected from 24 locations and nickel (Ni), chromium (Cr), arsenic (As), zinc (Zn), lead (Pb), copper (Cu) and cadmium (Cd) accumulations in delta components were read using an ICP-MS. Water quality index (WQI), heavy metal pollution index (HPI), heavy metal evaluation index (HEI) and degree of contamination index (C-deg) were applied to detected data for assessing the water quality. Also, the toxic element concentrations in water were assessed in terms of public health using some health risk assessment methods including hazard index (HI), hazard quotient (HQ) and cancer risk (CR). According to the results of WQI, HPI, HEI and C-deg, Ni and As were recorded as most dangerous toxicants among the investigated elements and Gala Lake was recorded as most effected delta component. According to the results HQs and CR, As was recorded as the most dangerous toxicant among the investigated elements and Gala Lake and Ergene River were recorded as the most effected delta components.

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Meric River Delta, Health Rish Assessment, Toxic Element Risk Assessment Indices, Water-Quality Assessment, Dissolved Trace-Elements, Drinking-Water, Heavy-Metals, Surface-Water, Multivariate-Analysis, Groundwater, Pollution, System, Index

Kaynak

Environmental Earth Sciences

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Q2

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Q2

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79

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18

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